Highlights & Key Features
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Infinite Color Engine: Breaks the standard RGB 24-bit barrier using high-precision floating-point arithmetic. By shifting transformations to linear sRGB space, we provide physically accurate light reproduction and native deep-color support for devices like Philips Hue and LIFX. This advanced processing also guarantees remarkably smooth color transitions and gradients, effectively eliminating color banding and maximizing accuracy for a natural ambient experience.
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Advanced Smoothing: Introduces a new generation of smoothing algorithms, including the innovative Hybrid Inertia mode. Designed for a more natural and fluid response, these algorithms make ambient lighting transitions exceptionally smooth and visually pleasing.
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Adaptive Dithering & RGBW Enhancements: Powered by the fully realized Infinite Color Engine, we've implemented adaptive temporal dithering specifically for RGBW drivers (such as SK6812). This delivers silky-smooth animations and color transitions while avoiding flickering during static scenes. Alongside dithering, this update also introduces finer control over the dedicated white channel.
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Introducing Hyperk: Our new wireless solution is a brand-new, dedicated project that fills the final gap in our LED driver lineup. It's a robust wireless controller compatible with a massive range of platforms, including ESP8266, ESP32 (S2, S3, C2, C3, C5, C6), Raspberry Pi Pico W (RP2040, RP2350). A minimalist solution with a basic WLED-compatible API, ensuring seamless integration with environments like HyperHDR or Home Assistant. The latest update brings HyperSerial, multi-segment and power relay control support.
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Massive Performance Leap: Video decoding for YUV, NV12, and P010 codecs has been heavily optimized, delivering impressive speed improvements of up to 46%. Additionally, Linux users benefit from an enhanced Pipewire implementation featuring hardware GPU scaling to drastically minimize CPU overhead.
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Hardware & Ecosystem Expansion: Brings highly anticipated native PWM support for the Raspberry Pi 5, expanding options for modern builds. We have also transitioned our entire infrastructure to the modern Qt 6.8+ framework, resulting in noticeably smaller installers and seamless version consistency across all supported platforms. The build system now supports generating distribution-specific packages that rely on system dependencies instead of bundling external libraries. Additionally, configuration storage conforms to platform-native standards across all operating systems, with full Filesystem Hierarchy Standard compliance on Linux.
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Signed Windows Installers: Thanks to the generous support of the SignPath Foundation, our Windows installers are now officially digitally signed. This guarantees that our binaries are safe and untampered with.
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Modern C++20 Foundation: Marks a strategic transition to the C++20 standard. By leveraging the latest language capabilities, this update significantly boosts core engine performance, enhances overall system robustness, and ensures highly efficient long-term maintainability.
Changelog:
New features
- Infinite Color Engine - Breaking RGB 24-bit Limits (#1261)
- Floating-Point Precision: All color computations use high-precision floating-point arithmetic, eliminating cumulative rounding errors for more accurate results
- Linear sRGB Accuracy: Core color transformations are processed in linear sRGB space, ensuring physically correct and consistent light reproduction
- Deep-Color Support: Compatible devices, including Philips Hue lamps, LIFX and HD108 LEDs, can take advantage of rendering beyond standard 24-bit RGB color depth.
- Advanced color smoothing algorithms: inertia-based physics, exponential, and perceptually-uniform YUV/RGB interpolators for more fluid and natural color transitions
- Start migrating to modern C++20
- Add Hybrid RGB Smoothing Interpolator (#1379)
- Add Infinite Color Engine support to file LED driver (#1311)
- Infinite Color Engine: add LIFX support for beyond 24-bit rendering (#1299)
- Infinite Color Engine: fix for YUV & hybrid interpolators (#1302)
- Fix RGBCMYK calibration (#1369)
- Fix: Initial smoothing surge after period of static video input (#1410)
- Fix: Minimum brightness preservation in YUV and Hybrid-Inertia smoothing modes (#1410)
- New anti-flickering filter in the smoothing configuration (#1410)
- Implements an anti-flickering filter that minimizes quantization jitter on 8-bit-per-channel drivers (24-bit RGB). Deep color capable drivers (like Philips Hue using entertainment mode) are bypassed as they don't suffer from LSB oscillation.
- RGBW with Temporal Dithering - powered by Infinite Color Engine (#1483)
- Significant speedup for YUV/NV12/P010 and related codecs (#1374)
- Performance increased up to 46%
- Compared performance of RPi 5 vs N100 in HyperHDR video decoding benchmark
- Switched to modern C++20 format style logging
- Improved, faster Pipewire + option to disable EGL (#1397)
- GPU Scaling (EGL/DMA mode) - scales the desktop on the GPU; only the small final texture is sent to the CPU
- Optional HW acceleration - option to disable EGL in the Pipewire configuration
- Auto-resume - automatically restarts the grabber if dimensions change or the stream fails
- EGL texture caching - improves performance by reusing textures
- MemFD caching - reuses file descriptor memory mappings
- Full FTDI and libFTDI dynamic runtime support. Thanks @nurikk-sa for help (#1155)
- libFTDI support on Linux/macOS
- Support of manufacturer "ftd2xx.dll" driver on Windows
- Add PWM support for Raspberry Pi 5 GPIO/PIO (#1317)
- Migrate ALL installers to Qt 6.8+. Breaking: docker build subsystem (#1203)
- Philips Hue driver: add option for linear or nonlinear RGB color output (#1401)
- Windows DX grabber: multi-monitor capturing status check & restart
- DirectX grabber: support for portrait mode (#1200)
- Switch to Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) compliant installation on Linux (#1477)
- Migrate to standard OS config location if ~/.hyperhdr folder is missing (#1472)
- Integrate SignPath for automated Windows code signing (#1479)
- Add Philips WiZ support (driver + web wizard) Thanks @user83749 (#1469)
- Implement DDP / Hyperk drivers (#1467)
- Prepare support for RP2350 in HyperSerialPico integration (#1521)
Maintenance
- Update language files. Thanks @AstaRom (#1396, #1300, #1288, #1131, #1402, #1403, #1445)
- Add Windows-2025, macOS-15-intel, Debian Trixie and migrate others (#1296)
- Update CMake configuration to add support for additional system libraries. Thanks @hatch01 (#1158)
- Add USE_SYSTEM_SDBUS_CPP_LIBS option (#1140)
- Update LunaSVG to v3.1.0 (#1139)
- Amlogic grabber restore & refactor. Thanks @santievil (#1119)
- Add Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora 44 (#1491)
- More accurate simplified Chinese translation. Thanks @DaBinQwQ (#1520)
- Upgrades old style format logging (with %) to c++20 format in some places (#1410)
Fixes
- Fix smoothing algorithm drift in long-running sessions (#1561)
- Fix RGB splitting across E1.31 universes (#1585)
- Smoothing: restore continuous output control + stricter end detection (#1337)
- Fix rendering w/o continuous output (#1377)
- Improved state management of the software grabber during sleep and monitor‑suspend events (#1410)
- Set disableOnLocked option enabled by default, because software grabbers for ex. Pipewire wont function properly without it (#1410)
- Hide HyperHDR from the macOS Dock (#1345)
- Add replacement for libglib2.0-0 (armhf, Y2038 bug) (#1341)
- Add aspect ratio detection for Amlogic grabber. Thanks @santievil (#1476)
- Fix ENABLE_PIPEWIRE_EGL=OFF build (#1138)
- Restores custom user RGB order at the start (#1410)
- Restores compatibility with Qt5.15 (#1410)
- Don't rely on plutovg CMake script to detect C++11 threads support (#1253)
- Fix for OpenSSL on macOS (needed by HTTPS/TLS) (#1290)
- Add QElapsedTimer include to DriverNetLifx.cpp Thanks @arfoll (#1330)
- Updated Home Assistant module to enable SSL support. Thanks @josh-blake (#1249)
- Fix Dutch translations. Thanks @dijkstrar (#1122)
- Improved handshake stability connecting to Philips Hue bridge using OpenSSL 3.2+ (#1410)
- Remove min/max limits to allow using only a very small part of the screen capture as input area. Thanks @markusressel (#1175)
- Translation resources
- Add missing Qt meta-type registrations (#1456)
- Allow capturing non-primary macOS displays (#1530)
- Fix remote tab JSON parsing error caused by missing black color in API JSON scheme (#1471)
- Fix build without PCH enabled. Thanks @HiassofT for help (#1497)
- Use IANA-compliant HTTP reason phrases. Thanks @joeshull (#1510)